Jellybean is on 40% of all Android devices

[Mellimel22]

Apple can update easy because they make ONE PHONE. How hard is it to update one handset.

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[Mellimel22]

None of that has anything to do with carriers and manufacturers not supporting the phones they're selling on contract. LTE is not a function of Android, it's a hardware issue. I'm not sure what you mean by "smoothness." The number of apps has little to do with what we're talking about either (though I bet if you ask a developer they'd say it's easier assuming 93% of people have the latest OS than it is having to account for 33% using the OS from two versions ago) and market share has nothing to do with it either. Apple is way, way better at supporting their product by updating software than a vast majority of Android devices. Unless you're buying a Nexus or GE Android device there's no guarantee that you'll get OS updates with Android. I have a tablet that's less than 9 months old that won't be getting anything 4.3 or newer.

You can argue other points as much as you want and while it's good news that the percent of devices that are running JB (even if it isn't the latest version of it) is going up, you can't argue that 40% is anything but terrible compared to the competition.

Like i said one phone. And so what about the latest updates. If the phone works on 4.1.1 or 4.3 so what. Like I said consumers are agreeing with me.

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[garublador]

Like i said one phone. And so what about the latest updates. If the phone works on 4.1.1 or 4.3 so what.

Those are all JB. If we're only talking about latest updates it's only 6.5% of Android devices that have that. Almost a third of them are using an OS that's been obsolete for almost 2 years.

Consumers aren't agreeing with you. They're choosing Android over iOS. That doesn't mean they think that Android is going good in this department, just that they value other things more.

 

[Mellimel22]

No my point is that consumers are agreeing that issue is moot at best.

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[dc9super80]

Those are all JB. If we're only talking about latest updates it's only 6.5% of Android devices that have that. Almost a third of them are using an OS that's been obsolete for almost 2 years.

Consumers aren't agreeing with you. They're choosing Android over iOS. That doesn't mean they think that Android is going good in this department, just that they value other things more.

One of which, an important factor in a great number of sales, is cost.

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[garublador]

One of which, an important factor in a great number of sales, is cost.

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Overseas the iOS devices can be quite a bit more expensive than they are in the US. I saw an article where they're paying 1.5-2X as much for iOS devices in Australia as we are in the US. Less expensive Android phones dominate China, which is the largest smartphone market. If you look at market share in the US where cost isn't as big of a factor (iPhones cost about the same as Android phones) it's a lot closer. It's far from scientific, but I know several people who use iOS devices becasue of how awful the support is for most Android devices.